The Future of Voting
February 23rd, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in Technology
The future of voting, as with so much else, may be online. To try to overcome low voter turnout, King Conservation District is holding an online election to vote in a new supervisor, according to the Seattle Times. The District helps landowners in King County with conservation efforts such as water quality protection and farm management plans...
Tags: Conservation, election, online, vote
September 8th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Technology
With around 14,000 miles of coastline along the Gulf of Mexico, even the best rescue workers can’t be everywhere at once. So a University of Massachusetts re...
Tags: app, Asian Longhorned Beetle, endangered, Gulf, gypsy moth, iPhone, Mobile Gulf Observatory, MoGo, oil, Technology, Wildlife
August 30th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley and Maryam Fejvai in Technology
Energy efficient and sustainable companies display a sense of organizational effectiveness that allows them to make good use of the energy conservation te...
Tags: buildings, Conservation, design, energy, environment, Manitoba Hydro Place, smart, sustainable, Technology
July 27th, 2010 by Caitlin Hill in Technology
Congratulations to the winners of the eighth annual Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals that were recently announced in Warsaw, Poland!
With society’s growing r...
Tags: design, development, disaster response, Imagine Cup, Microsoft, Millennium Development, Scientific American, software, Technology, UN
July 8th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Technology
Technology is starting to play an important role in humanitarian crisis rescue efforts, as seen in Haiti and after Hurricane Katrina. Called crowd-sourcing, it...
Tags: annual meeting, crisis, crowd-sourcing, earthquake, emergencies, Haiti, Humanitarian, ICCM 2009, ICCM 2010, mapping, mobile, social networking, Technology, Yahoo News
